Andreas VUNDY

To make an successful band it is very very long way run. Doesnt matter if you wanna have worldwide success or only local. But we were on it. And we loved it. We played basically anywhere. You could give as 20$ for concert or 200$. We took it. It was beautiful time. Everyone of us had normal job and this band was still just our hobby. So money from it was not too important to us.

After releasing our first record, we went on tour around country. As a support band for another bigger band. I have to tell you, that I enjoyed this time. It was our dream time.  We were becoming more and more popular. People started to know our songs, and we could play anywhere, we got strong audience. Unfortunatelly our record company felt appart, so we had to find new one.
And from underground label  we moved to big Warner Bros. Signed up contract for 2 albums and 1 best of. Still young and nice. Perfect time

And it was time to change my job again. As you are getting older and older, your needs, comfort, life standart is getting to next levels (unless you are not punkie style guy).  And I realized, that I wanna have own car, better guitar, better amp, I wanna buy apartment, I wanna buy this and that, etc…Yea educated in world of money. I was just another silly materialist. Also this time I also thought often about my carrier: Where Im goin ? What I will do ? What I want to do ? What is my purpose here ?  Anyway, one thing was clear to me: I need more money

And I was getting older and older…Didnt think about future, just lived the present time. And as time went on I finished college. Economy university of Bratislava. Really not my cup of tea. But….When I had finished high school, I had basically two choices: economy university and some technical college (mother was bank accountant, and father was theoretical physic). When I turned 18, I totally had no clue what I would like to be in fututre…So thats why I had choose Economy university; there were usually nicest chicks :)

So I successfully finished college, had great job and played with my band on many shitty places. We mostly played punk&roll, and we became quite popular around my city. Something as underground band. Anytime we made a concert, 300 people came there…When we made a concert more than 20km from our city, nobody came there :)

In 1999 we got a deal with record company to record our first CD. It was in time, where I quited for third time this my coder-dream job again (I got bored of all this coder stuff). Our 1 CD was released in the spring of 2000. We were very proud of that. After 5 years of playing nowhere we got our own CD. Yeah! Our songs started to be played on local radio stations.

And I found another job. Job where I was doing nothing. I was just sitting behind the PC and from time to time I had to fix some stuff on others PCs. And also from time to time I had to code some small application. Yeah thats all baby…Browsing on internet all day, and jerking off the fresh porn downloaded to my computer, smoking 30 cigarrets a day, I was satisfied. My work hours were somewhere between 11.00AM to 3.30PM. Money was not as much good as before, but I didnt care. All my attention was focused to my band. We rocked on!

Yes. I believe this. Everything depends on you. But mostly your life. My parents had always told me that I cannot do music in my life. It cannot work. Especially in my small country. I agreed

Im from Slovakia. In our past we had really bad time, communism, socialism. Our countryside is beautiful, people are very kind, nice, peaceful, we have a nicest girls in the europe. Thats the fact. But also thats all I can say. 3/4 of nation are alcoholic, we have no tradition, no money for culture and from time to time we still fight with some basic democratic principles. Lot of us are out of reality, altho there is nothing weird on it, coz we had closed our borders for 40 years. For generation of my parents; this age has to kill them. People here dont have enough money. Our market is small, the only bands which have success here, are bands which were formed in communism and they still play their old soc - pop. Mainstream. Something like Bon Jovi in his best age. Or the bands which were formed in 90s and wanna imitate their soc pop rock mainstream heros :)

So thats why I thought, that beeing coder is my dream carrier. I really liked this job. And I liked also benefits I got from it. Music was my hobby. And thats how it should have stayed for rest of my life…..but…

As times came, and as I worked harder and harder, and still couldnt buy my own house, I started to think about it….more and more…every day…and I found out that Im not happy…Why we are living our lives, when we are not satisfied ? When we have to go to our jobs on daily basis, every day, doing same stuff, which we apparently dont like and also money we get from this are like really good joke. We just contribute to business, which is not ours, and so we cannot see long-term fruits. We are just fuckin robots. And we got only one life…wtf is that ?

I was always hard working young man. I started to earn first money since my college years. When I was 20 I found my first good paid job. I started to work as a programmer/coder for local company. This company was solid, and shortly I got my own business car, which could be used for any purpose. My salary raised up fast, and after 1 year in this company I earned much more $ than my mother & dad together. I was 20, student of college and hard working man (I often used to sleep in this company - they had their offices 10min away from my city, full equipment, with beds, kitchens, etc…). So I didnt live real student life, like every normal person in my age, I didnt have so much fun like the others, I just worked hard and I was happy about it. I thought that beeing coder is the best thing I can do in my life. I was educated in the world of money.

At the same age, I started to form band with my best friend. Rock band. We were pretty newbies, we couldnt play well on our instruments, but it was such a fun. And my hobby, and all my free time I could spend with it. To play hours our garbage songs. Haha

In this company, I worked for 5 years. I quit this work several times, but I always returned because I got used to into all these crap benefits I had (own car, big salary). At this time I earned approx 1300$ / month. In my country was average salary 350$ at this time, so I was pretty well off. The worlds is yours.

It is Saturday, 9th of February, my gf is making dinner and Im setuping this blog. Why ? Everyone has own blog. If you dont know what you want to say, just publish it on your new own blog. Old joke. Anyhow I have several reasons. Wanna work out on my english, wanna earn some money within it and also wanna share my story. Yeah, thats it!

Im 30 year old guy. I play guitar and all my life is music. Music rules my world. And then, Im retired. It sounds bad, but in the fact my monthly earnings are approx 15.000-20.000$ . No work. Where are they from ? Haha another pyramid game ?! Yeah I will tell you this in my next posts. Maybe. And maybe not :) It is quite funny trick, how everyone can be happy and focus to things which he likes. All you need is, to hack this fucking world of money. So stay tuned.

And behind the line: DO IN  YOUR LIVE ONLY THAT, WHAT  you want to do. If you dont like your job, quit it. Simple as that. I did it. 3 years ago, and from that moment Im the happiest man in my neighbor. DO it! Tomorrow!